I'm getting the idea, @whatsup, that there really is no cure. We either give up on freedom, decentralization, and the STEEM dream as we know it, or we just let things as they are and just allow anyone and everyone to be rolled over. Never mind who gets caught in the back and forth. It's the price we pay for true lack of centralized control.

Or, we could bring the fringes together and do some middle ground work. I would like to think that we could all agree that we are free to do what we want with our stake, as long as it doesn't steal or limit the use of someone else's stake (which means defining what all that means), and that crossing those lines has some kind of repercussions (whatever those are).

That said, whatever we do with our stake, while our choice to make, can also be subject to scrutiny, questioning, and in some cases, trying to stop that use by others, because of the way they exercise their stake. If we can somehow work in between those two parameters with little to no collateral damage, policing ourselves (as in, individuals do it to themselves) then maybe we've got something where freedom thrives, decentralization is still alive and yet we do spend some time thinking about what our actions are doing to others.

I'm open to suggestions. Really I am. I'm kind of tired of being told what can't be done by those who are supposed to be in the no, or who represent a certain philosophy or process of thought. This is not an impossible situation with no solution, and we don't have to be called dictators simply because we want a little decorum, common decency and civil discourse.